Development of a Professional Practice Nursing Model for a University Nursing School and Teaching Hospital: A nursing methodology research.

Aim: The aim of the study was to describe the process of developing a Professional Practice Model by a Nursing School and Nursing Department of University Hospital.

Design And Method (s): This is a descriptive nursing methodology research, developed along three stages: preliminary, empirical and validation. The empirical phase used qualitative and quantitative methodology.

Development, implementation and evaluation of an evidence-based practice model in a new hospital in Chile.

Aims: To describe an implementation programme for an evidence-based practice (EBP) model in a new Chilean hospital and to analyse the programme evaluation results.

Background: Evidence-based practice is key to professional nursing for improving health care safety and quality.

Methods: First, a literature review was performed to develop an institutional EBP model.

Antiphospholipid antibodies in Chilean patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.

Antiphospholipid antibodies (aPLs) are a heterogeneous family of antibodies found in autoimmune disorders, infectious diseases, and other situations. The presence of different aPLs has been associated with various clinical manifestations of the antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). The objective of this study was to investigate the prevalence of aPLs in a group of 90 Chilean patients with systemic lupus erytematosus (SLE) and 90 healthy controls.